The president of the European Parliament encourages research specialists gathered at Brussels for people with Down Syndrome

After the UNO (in Geneva) yesterday, it was then in the European Parliament (in Brussels) that the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation organized a conference for the World Down Syndrome Day.

The event aimed at raising awareness concerning the issues and needs of the health and research programs that people with Down Syndrome benefit from. The president of the European Parliament Antonio Taiani spoke before the young people with Down Syndrome (for France, Paul, Laura, Ségolène, Charlotte). He underlined a characteristic often found in people with Down Syndrome but frequently ignored: “Young people with Down Syndrome give out more love than other people. They are better people. People who give out the most love are those who win.” He was, of course, alluding to Mélanie’s success as a weather presenter.

The president of the Parliament also insisted on the importance of financial support “It is obvious we need to put more money into research and innovation”. He then left his place to scientists and researchers so that they may present their most recent work.

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The goal of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, a recognised public interest organisation, is to continue the work to which Professor Jérôme Lejeune, discoverer of Down syndrome, devoted his life: medical research on genetic diseases with intellectual disability, receiving and treating children and adults with Down syndrome or other genetic defects of intelligence ; in offering specialised medical consultation treating all their pathologies linked to their disease ; the defence of life, the respect for the patient's dignity, with a constant ethical focus and active solidarity, from the beginning of life until death.